The beginning of my new book.
Reactor, Oklo to Fukushima.
"The flames were so intense that they melted the paint from the wings of the bombers that rained down white phosphorus and napalm onto the ancient wooden city. It sounded as if the atmosphere, on fire, was screaming in agony.
The core of the bomb came from the arid deserts of the American Northwest where uranium slugs were pushed through the huge graphite blocked wall of the plutonium production reactor.
Shaped into a sphere, in the New Mexican desert named Jornado del Muerto, the Journey of Death, by the Conquistador Coronado, it was exploded.
The explosion was many times larger than any before. Days later the Japanese city of Hiroshima became the first victim of the hideous new bomb.
In the midst of the fire bombing of Tokyo, immediately preceding the destruction of Hiroshima, Doctor Kuroda had been thinking about the news that the element uranium had been used to create a self sustaining atomic reaction. If it were true physics suggested that this had occurred many times before in the five billion year history of the Earth.
Inescapable was the idea that this was the source of the Earth's heat...that the earth itself was a gigantic reactor."
Table of Contents
1 Beginning
2 Rise of the West
3 World War
4 Cold War
5 Nuclides
6 Meters
7 Numbers
8 References
9 People
10 Reactors
The book, roughly two hundred pages, is finished.